Well, well, well.

I'm sorry if I didn't read/comment on some blogs! Needless to say I'm busy...*sigh*

I'm happy about my schedule because...I start third period! So I get to sleep..actually, not that much later. What can I do? It takes at least 45 min. to get down there so I'm pretty much up at the same time I used to. Besides, if I'm early enough--and I get permission--I can catch up and do a quick blog! Then I'll do a proper one that evening, er, night.

I have an EXAM next week. Physics. Yippee. No, my teacher is pretty nice and he says it won't be on anything we haven't learned by then. Do I believe him? After today's class? Yes, I do. He looks like an old, boring teacher who's been teaching for 23 years, but! He makes it fun and interesting. So, yeah, I like his class.

Hey, I wanted to put a video thing up, but I have no idea how to... Someone teach me. Please? Thanks!

Pluggies: ikamashokie, little-b, thaitanic, The-Muffin-Man, Kirei, Kuri, v13txhuniie

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Okay, I'm about to fall out of the top ten so I have to write something interesting...

Hmm, let's see...oh, first. The lyrics I put up are Glamorous Sky and Isolation by Mika Nakashima. Glamorous Sky was a theme song for NANA in which Mika played Nana Oosaki. I really liked it so I downloaded it and found lyrics. I've found that her songs are rock-ish, but are classified as JPop. *shrugs*

On to something else: I'm a big reader. I LOVE books and am a total bookworm. I read for pleasure.
And to get away from reality.
Into the land of make believe.
Where Romeo fights for love.
And all dancers are welcomed, good or bad. Or just dumb.

Bananas and all.

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I was just watching 20/20 on channel 7 (abc7). This segment was called...something Stupid America or stupid schools...something.
I sat there watching John Stossel tell me why I should be skeptical every time I'm told something.

I was the customer at his resturant and he was putting the dishes on my table one after another. There was no time for me to taste it or remark upon the beautiful ways they were arranged.

Don't get me wrong, I believed every word he said. It was channel 7, they would never state anything that wasn't a fact they had researched. I was in a french resturant, I knew the food would be superb. And I trusted them enough to know there wouldn't be turds in my filet mignon. They had definite data to back them up.

Okay, I'm being threatened again. I'll continue my rant later. See ya!
--And I'm back! Sorry, Kuri, if I don't make sense...

You know how there is a demand for more money for schools? Money for education! It's for a good cause: our children! The unions and teachers are telling the politicians and the public how money can help kids get better grades.

NOT TRUE!!!!
Example #1: Billions of dollars were given to a particular school that hadn't been doing so well. Now they have an olypic-sized pool, a huge cafeteria, indoor track in a gigantic gymnasium. But the grades? Gotten worse. Down, down, down.

Example #2: School with no donations, but has a great principal. He visits every class and gives out money for perfect attendance! The kids love it!

Example #3: There are teachers rewarded for good teaching. They know they'll lose their jobs if they don't teach well. So they make learning fun. The kids are excited to do phonics, etc...

Schools in South Carolina aren't getting better. On the list of States' SAT scores: South Carolina is dead last with 993...or was it 933?...either way, that's not good. And yet those in charge argue that it is getting better and that it's perfectly fine as it is.

You know what's even worse? If you go up a couple of places on that list, you'll find New York! I live in New York! Why is it so bad?

Remember the No Child Left Behind Act? Teachers are teaching little kids to cheat to pass into the next grade. They're giving them the answers to get them out of there.

Also, kids have to go their zone schools. Their parents can't choose the schools for them. Even if the school is really bad. Here's another bad thing: if they're rich, they can move and buy a house in the right neighborhood with a good school. A governor's kid can choose not to go to his zone school because...well, he's the governor's kid.

You can choose what kind of cell phone you want, the ringtones and wallpapers, but not your school. There's a school so good, parents would die to get their kids in. So they have to hold a lottery. Whoever wins gets in! Yay! Because otherwise, they'd never have had a chance.

I believe it all. I really do. But I had barely enough time to digest it. It went by pretty fast though I understood it all. They just have a lot of facts we need to know with a limited time slot in which to tell us. *shrugs* Oh, I remember now. It's called Stupid in America.

I hope I made sense...I just started typing and this is what came out. Mind you I watched this last night. My memory's pretty impressing, eh? *lifts eyebrows*
Later!

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I had a dinner of SlimJim and ramen last night. Wait, the ramen was an evening snack, the SlimJim was my dinner. Yum, the spicy mixed with the crumbly cheddar, yum.

I may not be a college student, but I certainly live like one. Ooh, I've been wanting to try those...whatchamacallit, sandwiches that toast in the microwave. Mmm, nice and warm and easy. Except for one problem: no microwave.
Otherwise, I'll have one heck of a mess for meals because .

*I squeeze my eyes shut, trying not to think about the one thing that will make me scream. I do not succeed*

School starts in two days. TWO DAYS. Two freakin' days! I'm not looking forward to it. Sure, I'll be glad to see my friends finally, but I won't have any classes with them anyway. I'm just tired of going through the same motions year after year. Homework? Easy: read the textbook, answer some questions. Projects? Done = write up a report/essay/paste paragraphs and pictures on poster board + add stuff for extra credit. Or do the extra credit, whatever. Classwork? Simple -- Copy whatever's on the board and take notes from the teacher's lecture/discussion.

Whopee! So hard, er, easy. Welcome to my boring existance. *sigh*

Sorry, I'm usually pretty upbeat...XP

Plugs! Kuri, thisdisease, riv307, hikarixgaki, the-muffin-man

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First, I'm very exasperated, annoyed, and I just finished crying buckets. But I need to get something out of the way before telling you why.

I have another update on my-life-before-NuTang for you:
I had mentioned in an earlier entry that I'm a dancer. Though not your ususal hip hop dance-to-whatever-music-is-on kinda thing. More like...

Chinese Folk Dance! Yay! Hooray! That doesn't mean just ribbons and fans and handkerchiefs. There's all different kinds of Chinese dance: Xin Jiang, Tibetan, Korean, Mongolian, etc. You all took history, right? So you know that China had been occupied by different countries before and had occupied lands that are now parts of other countries. That is your answer to "What? Korean isn't Chinese dance and neither is so-and-so!"

*Brag Alert!* I've been dancing for 12 years! I used to take acrobatics so i could do flips, etc...though I can barely do a cartwheel now ^-^;; So I'm pretty flexible, ie: I can do splits. XD

Now I'm taking Peking Opera classes, too. I can manipulate a staff and that staff-like-thing with a blade at the end. It's mostly for show because, well, it's for opera. But! I can still kick some a** with it. XP

Oh, and my teachers aren't any run-of-the-mill idiots. They're accomplished dancers and artists: professionals from Beijing, Shanghai, etc...

Alright, I'm done with the bragging. XP

Exasperation+Annoyance=Tears. Not fun. Storytime!

Well, I was walking in the street one day with my mother. We were on our way to Home Depot because we're painting the apartment. A nice conversation along the way that ended in:

Mother: See, you won't go to Heaven!

Me:*glares at her from behind and says flippantly* Well, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to heaven because I don't believe anyway. There may or may not be a heaven or hell.

Me: You know, me and Annie had a philosophical discussion about this. Philosophy--philosophical. *explaining for her benefit* We've decided that we're not going to heaven. We're going to hell. It'll be fun!

Mother: See, those aren't good people! I'm a good person so I have lots of friends. You don't have any.

Me: Yes, I do!
--in front of Rockerfeller Center--
Mother: Oh, look! Ice-skating.

Me: In the winter only. Annie went ice-skating yesterday.

Mother: See, your friends don't call you out. They went without you.

Me: She called me weeks ago. You said no so I couldn't go.

Me: And she called me yesterday to see if I was going. And you said no.
--later--
Me: Cecilia said she was going to get her hair done today for tomorrow (first day of school), *next part said fast because she's opened her mouth to speak* but she probably can't go because she has a lot of rashes.

Mother: See, those aren't smart people. *referring to the 'get hair done' part*

Me: She's in the honor society! Don't assume they're not smart because she wants to get her hair cut!
--in Home Depot--looking at window curtain things--
Mother: Give me the measurements. Do they fit?

Me: *take out the measurements*

Mother: See if they fit.

Me: *measures* The big one is a bit short for the middle window *measures some more* The small one's bigger than the small windows

Mother:*silent for a minute, grabs them, and starts to measure them herself*

Me: *inward sigh* I measured them already!

Mother: *silent treatment*

Me: *inward 'geez'*

Mother: *contemplating how to go about this*...oh, we could just get small ones!

Me: Um, we can get one big one and two small ones. *The small ones would have extra we could use to patch whatever's left sticking out of the big one*

Mother: No! We'll get all small ones! Then, they'll fit!

Me: Okay. Since the big one is equal to two small ones, we'll get 4 small. How about that?

Mother: *after five minutes and me repeating what we had already said* No! We'll get one big one and two small ones! *like it was her idea all along*

Me: That's what I said in the beginning!

Mother: *ignoring me*

The rest of the day I chanted silently in my head: "Someone help me...someone save me...someone save me from this woman...someone save me from my mother..."

Oh. My. God. (no offense to Christians) She said those things so matter-of-fact. Everything. Like they were obvious and true. God! (sorry again)

And she's not some old fashioned person from China. (no offense here, too) She's been here for over 20 years, she speaks nearly perfect english, she has connections everywhere. She's not stupid, but this is her opinion of me.

Argh! Depression came over me and the waterworks started. Not in public, of course, but it happened. Now I'm better. NuTang makes me happy.

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I have a splitting headache. I'm just not used to thinking again. The space behind my eyes is empty. The little clam inside screamed as the lever of learning wrenched the shell open.

I was really hungry so I got a nice yummy sandwich from Subways.

As I walked, I passed the Columbus Circle mall. I stopped and asked myself, "Should I go up to Borders?" There was a chance new manga was on the shelves. In fact, I knew there would be. I haven't gone to the bookstores in a while. I've been too busy with NuTang. IT'S TOO ADDICTING!
Anyway, I decided not to since I'd been gone all day and I had a lot of catching up to do. And I was right.

Except I have nothing to blog about. And I've given up on reading all the blogs written today. My eyes are already tired and my headache won't get better if I continued. There's so much to think about!

Oh, and I have special classes that I'll be taking at night. So it'll take even more time away from NuTang.

*sniff*

Oops, I forgot the pluggies again! I'll start with day-before-yesterday's (which will be long because there are 14 people: thank you!)

Day-before-yesterday's Pluggies: frostbitten, ikamashokie, The-Muffin-Man, Kuri, Chloefoxx, invisible, of_your_mind, thisdisease, papaphysix, Dilated, little-b, Princess_00, randomjunk

And!!!

Yesterday's Pluggies: Kuri, The-Muffin-Man, ikamashokie, Chloefoxx, little-b

Thank you! Thank you!

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The machine on which I am clacking away was a disaster this weekend. My cursor decided to go rollercoaster nut on me. I could not type, close windows, fix settings, sign in, log out, answer the Window's questions, so on and so forth. The curse of the cursor was a nightmare.

And then, I found that ray of light they call hope! So bright, so warm was that light, I welcomed into my arms. Yellow glow, a halo 'round my head and felt in my heart. My eyes a-wide and shining~! That savior of mine came in the form of...a freeware called MapKeyboard.

Of course once I found it and downloaded it, I found out I did not have the right Windows' setting/version for a certain item. So I went scurrying over to Microsoft and hurriedly downloaded an extra needed in order to download the ware for the program to work (wordy, I know) only to find out that it really was just extra and my computer didn't need it. I finally downloaded the thing needed for the program to work and voila! It worked.

Of course, the cursor had to come to life in the middle of remapping and then starts running up and down the list of keys options for remapping right after I manage to click save layout + during my trying to answer the question "Would you like to restart?" Therefore, I really have no idea where the bothersome key bug got remapped to. Ah, well.

If you didn't understand a word I said, all the better since it was all very troublesome and hounded me all weekend. But I am finally, hopefully surely, at rest.

I shall sleep now. Good night, my beauties.

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Yes, the title says it all. I'm thinking of glamming up. "The Silver-dot- site: Glamed"

So, there is a scrolling text thing. It's blue and glittery and says 'silver.' It scrolls from the left to right. Think I should put it up?

Also, I went and got myself a countdown, but when I put it in a module, it didn't show up...the module sat there EMPTY. Though I was using it as a countdown until school started so now it's pointless. Hmm, maybe I should make up another countdown...

--I put it up anyway.

After taking a good look at the finished product, something occurred to me: Is it too girly? I feel like I should tone it down...How do I change the background to black or grey or something?

I told you, I have no clue how to go about layouts...I gave a HOLLER to the-muffin-man, but just it case you missed it:

HOLLERHOLLERHOLLLERHOLLERRRRRRRRR!

Help.

Pluggies: frostbitten, thaitanic, The-Muffin-Man, Galaxie, randomjunk, Kuri

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